Tim Cummings was the last of the “squatters” legally allowed to live in Stanley Park, where he was born (other squatters were evicted in the 1920s). He was blind and lived in a little cabin near Brockton Point until his death at age 77. A campaign by Major Matthews, the City Archivist, to have his rickety shack preserved as a museum was unsuccessful, and it was torn down soon after. Source: Vancouver Sun, 11 March 1958. http://bit.ly/eMfLto
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Tim Cummings was the last of the “squatters” legally allowed to live in Stanley Park, where he was born (other squatters were evicted in the 1920s). He was blind and lived in a little cabin near Brockton Point until his death at age 77. A campaign by Major Matthews, the City Archivist, to have his rickety shack preserved as a museum was unsuccessful, and it was torn down soon after. Source: Vancouver Sun, 11 March 1958. http://bit.ly/eMfLto

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